noun · feminine
skevas
Strong’sG4631
tackle, fittings
stem skev-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** σκευή, -ῆς, ἡ
[in LXX: III Mac 5:45 R *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4631 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidskyoo-ay'
furniture, i.e. spare tackle
Fromfrom G4632;
King Jamestackling.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
equipment, attire, apparel, Refs 5th c.BC+; σκευῆς ἀνάθεσις, of the chorus, Refs 5th c.BC+; especially of the dress of a singer or actor, ἐνδὺς πᾶσαν τὴν σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; τραγικὴ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; of soldiers, σ. ψιλή Refs 5th c.BC+; of horse-trappings, Refs; of the dress of priests and public officers, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 fashion, style of dress or equipment, Μηδικὴ αὕτη ἡ σ. ἐστι Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ πολὺ αὕτη ἡ σ. κατέσχεν Refs 5th c.BC+
II tackle, as of a net, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a ship, NT+1st c.BC+
II.2 ={αἰδοῖον}, Refs 3rd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | skevas | skevais |
| object accusative | skevan1×σκευὴν | skevain |
| direct address vocative | skevar | skevair |
| of, belonging to genitive | skevau | skevaiu |
| to, for dative | skeva | skevai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
skeva is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
skevan“tackle”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 27:19kai ta trita autocheirois tan skevan teu ploieu riptala.… third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.